Detectors any good in sub 0 temps?

[heckling7]

I was wondering if my Compadre would work in cold winter weather? I assume I must use the $8 Energizer Lithium 9V battery I picked up today. Has anyone tried their unit below freezing conditions? I understand digging could be a challenge in some soils.

 

[Hank68]

Cold weather does effect the detector, but I use hand warmers in the dust cover to help keep it working, hank

 

[mudpuppy]

The ones with LCD screens are more prone to the bad effects of cold, a lot of guys (Me too) hunt all winter, sled hills, snowpiles etc...Like Hank said, when it gets below 0 those chemical handwarmers bundled up on the control box where the battery is and wrapped on there with an Ace bandage or something keep them running fine..you can carry a warm spare battery in your pocket and change it out too.....If you get a decent 6" snow over the top of the dirt before it freezes, you can still hunt and dig quite effectively...even shooting through that much snow a fellow still can get good signals....the ground wont freeze under the snow for a while...when it does, theres still some high dry areas in the woods under leaves and all that are diggable...the biggest problem I have is that the snow balls up on the coil and makes it very heavy, so I take one of those plastic grocery bags and just bag the coil with it and tie it off to the shaft...
Mud

 

[Sven]

of PAM cooking spray. It's what satellite TV dish owners use. Snow and ice slide right off.